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==== Indispensability argument for realism ==== {{Main|Quine–Putnam indispensability argument}} This [[Quine–Putnam indispensability thesis|argument]] by [[Willard Quine]] and [[Hilary Putnam]] says (in Putnam's shorter words), {{blockquote|... quantification over mathematical entities is indispensable for science ... therefore we should accept such quantification; but this commits us to accepting the existence of the mathematical entities in question.}} However, Putnam was not a Platonist.
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